81 Orchard Street
Manhattan · Lower East Side, NY 10002
81 Orchard Street is a 30-apartment building in Lower East Side, built in 1910, managed by Sma INC. The City has 32 open housing-code violations on file for it, 5 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.1 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.
Managed by Sma INC
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- Units
- 30
- Year built
- 1910
- Neighborhood
- Lower East Side
- Borough
- Manhattan
This building’s record with the City
Complaints tenants filed with 311, and repairs a City inspector has asked for. Most repairs are routine maintenance. Both describe the building rather than the people in it, and often predate the current management.
Complaints are down from 3 to 0 year on year.
0tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 3 the year before
32open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 1.1 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 5
- Hazardous
- 22
- Non-hazardous
- 5
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings12
- Doors, windows and locks9
- Leaks, damp or mould3
- Smoke and CO alarms2
- Paint and plaster1
- Electrical1
Housing Court
Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 2 times since October 2023.
A case is a filing, not a finding. Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
Sma INC manages 3 other buildings we cover, holding 60 apartments.
- open violations
- 142open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 44immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 111311 complaints
- per apartment
- 2.4per apartment
in the past year
The company’s record across its other buildings, not this building’s. A company can run one well and another badly, and these figures often predate the current management. (HPD and 311, as of 5 October 2026.)
What tenants say
Nobody has written about 81 Orchard Street yet.
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